Forest Imaginaries

How African Novels Think
Erscheinungsjahr 2026
ISBN: 978-0-231-22075-0
Verlag: Columbia University Press

Buch, Englisch, 304 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 151 mm x 228 mm, Gewicht: 442 g

This groundbreaking book explores the life of the forest in African fiction, showing how writers have used it to reinvent the novel’s formal, aesthetic, and political possibilities.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Edoro, Ainehi

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literatur: Sammlungen, Anthologien
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften, Biologie: Sachbuch, Naturführer

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Prologue: How I Found the Forest
Introduction: Rethinking African Fiction from the Forest
1. Thinking Like a Forest: Fragmentation in African Storytelling
Part I. The Tragedy of the Forest
2. A Fairy Tale of Blood: Or Why Imperialism Is Always About Death
3. Chinua Achebe’s Evil Forest: A Critique of Literary Violence
Part II. The Love of the Forest
4. The Endless Forest in Amos Tutuola’s Spectacular Fiction
5. Nnedi Okorafor’s Aquatic Forest: Corals, Aliens, and Storytelling Beyond the Human
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Ainehi Edoro is a Mellon-Morgridge Assistant Professor of English and African cultural studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She is the founding editor of Brittle Paper, a leading platform for African literary culture.